Michael Weber wrote: > I think running kernels from non-root checkouts is a pretty big > security hole.
Suggest think again. The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root. This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream. You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf / which would be bad if you built as root. The administrator usually has a normal user account somewhere. Use that to build. -sources ebuilds installing 755 root:root to /usr/src/linux is fine, but best avoid building in-tree in that case. //Peter
